Mount Vernon woman pleads guilty in newborn's death

Baby suffocated in plastic bags

9:01 PM,
Jun. 18, 2013

Kadian Gilzeane

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A city woman has pleaded guilty in the suffocation death in the summer of 2012 of her newborn son, whom she wrapped in plastic bags after giving birth to him at her apartment.

Kadian Gilzeane, 28, pleaded guilty June 11 in state Supreme Court in Westchester County to first-degree manslaughter in connection with the Aug. 3 death, court records show.

Prosecutors said in court papers that Gilzeane gave birth that morning in a bathroom at her apartment on North Ninth Avenue, cut the umbilical cord with scissors, wrapped the infant in plastic bags and put him ...